Strategy A: Create relationships outside of traditional partners, including criminal justice, military, arts, civic, civil rights, refugee, community planning/action
Expand Relationships Objective: Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities. Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Create relationships outside of traditional partners, including criminal justice, military, arts, civic, civil rights, refugee, community planning/action, ethnic-specific Chambers of Commerce, health, mental health, outreach clinics, ethnic-specific advocacy groups, sororities and fraternities, ethnic-specific professional associations, social justice organizations, immigrant rights organizations, and other groups tasked with serving diverse communities. Networking with cross-silo cultural and linguistic competence initiatives connects to others who may serve as resources for AIDD/AUCD/UCEDD/LEND work, helps other “mainstream” human services see the ways cultural and linguistic competence issues play out in disability services, and helps those mainstream organizations recognize the ways that disability is also a diversity and inclusion issue.
RESOURCES FOR STRATEGY #1
- Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health
- Collective Impact
- Collective Impact Forum
- Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities: Real Communities (video overview)
- Strengthening Nonprofits: A Capacity Builder's Resource Library - Partnerships: Frameworks for Working Together
- Aging and Disability Business Institute
- Research and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Futures: Building Self-Determination and Community Living and Participation to improve the lives of youth and young adults with serious mental health conditions